by Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY

by Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY

No, we won't get to see Rudy Huxtable as a busy working mom or a high-powered lawyer.

Not since Bill Cosby has emphatically declared that a Cosby Show reunion isn't going to happen.

"We laid out eight years of trying to do our best and we did a great job," he tells E! News.

But why? Because people were getting sick of cute little kids, according to Cosby.

"People came in numbers of saying the following, 'I want my house back.' And we took the house back by way of the TV. That's what I wanted to take it away from. I was tired of seeing little kids, not that they were brighter, not that they were smarter, but they were just ill-mannered children with no respect and writers were giving these lines to these children. I kept thinking these writers must have had a horrible time, horrible experience with the parents."

That doesn't mean we won't see more Cosby, though. He also reveals that he's been meeting with some networks about new projects and may be cooking something up with the Jim Henson Co.

"They care and they're efficient and they go well beyond - way beyond - studying and facts," he said. "So watch out for Bill Cosby and the Henson Company."